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Rethink Outside helps funders and partners share a more powerful story about how nature and time outside strengthens our communities.

We develop, test, and share narrative frameworks and stories that bring new partners to the table and grow the movement for equitable access to the outdoors.

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Narrative in Action

Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens Strengthens its Community

A treasured neighborhood green space connects people to the outdoors and each other.

Reclaiming Rights, Land, and a Way of Life

Day by day, Indigenous Regeneration works to reconnect people to each other and the world around them.

Teacher Helps School Become Health Ambassador

One teacher’s gardening enthusiasm jump-started community health.

Forging connections in the LGBTQIA+ community through the outdoors

Hear from Ailish Breen, founder of Queer Out Here, a UK-based space for queer folx to connect with nature in a joyful and healing way.

On the Rio Verde

This lyrical essay is based on Rethink Outside™ Storyteller Leeanna Torres’ experience on the Green River in 2021, through the generosity of FreeFlow Institute and American Rivers.

Thanks to our sponsors for financially supporting Rethink Outside

Rethink Outside photos courtesy of Big City Mountaineers, Children & Nature Network, Education Outside, Life Lab, Lincoln Park Zoo, NatureBridge, National Park Service, National Park Trust, Ocean Discovery Institute, Pie Ranch, Tiny Trees, and YES. Website by Weirdesign.com.